Horseshoe.



G. F. LIDEN.

HORSESHOB.

APPLIOATION FILED DEG. so. 1911.

1,045,573. Patented Nov. 26, 1912.

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GUS F. LIDEN, OF 0SHKOSH,.. WISCONSIN.

HORSESHOE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 263, 11912 Application filed December 350, 1911. Serial No. 668,585.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, Gus F. Linen, a subject of the King of Sweden, and resident 'of Oshkosh, in the county of Winnebago and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horseshoes; and I do hereby declare that the following description of my said invention,taken in connection with the accompanying sheet of drawings, forms a full, clear, and exact specification, which will enable others pertains to make and use the same. I

This invention has general reference to improvements in horseshoes; and it consists, essentially, in the novel and peculiar combination of parts and details of'construction, as hereinafter first fully set forth and described, and then pointed out in the claim.

The object of this invention is the improvement in horseshoes, whereby a composite horseshoe is produced that is more efficient and'serviceable and that will last longer andcost no more to manufacture than other eflicient horseshoes. 1

In the drawings already mentioned, which serve to illustrate this invention more fully, Figure 1 is a plan of the horseshoe, the inner lining thereof being removed. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the horseshoe complete. Fig. 3 is an end View of the same as seen. from thetoe'end thereof. Fig. 4 is a similar view of the horseshoe as seen from the heelend thereof. Fig. 5 is a transverse section on line w-w of Fig. 1, of one limb of the horseshoe with the lining 0 located in the channel in said shoe. Fig. 6 is a similar view on line y-y of Fig. 1 Fig. 7 is a transverse sectional view on line m-a2 of Fig. 1, the tread-attaching means shown therein being, however, omitted and a modified form of tread-attaching means being substituted. Fig. 8 is a like view showing a limb of the horseshoe prior to its receiving its finish ing operation.

Like parts are designated by the same characters and symbols of reference in .all the fi res.

A, in the drawings designates the horseshoe as an entirety. This horseshoe has at its toe-end the usual clip 12, and at its sides the flanges 13, wherein are located the nail holes 14, that receive the usual horseshoe nails by which the shoe is attached to a horses hoof. This body of the shoe is'recessed throughout at B except at the toecalk, the recess being widest at the heels 15, and narrower at the remaining portion 16, to afford spaces for the flanges 13 already mentioned, and the toe-calk 17. From the bot-tom of this recess B thererise a number of upstanding posts 18, three or more of such posts being provided. These posts have cone-shaped or pointed heads 19, to afiord projecting shoulders or barbs 20, the object of which will hereinafter appear.

In manufacturing this horseshoe economi cally in' the process of drop-forging or casting in malleable iron or steel, it is necessar that the shape thereof be such that the pro uct can be lifted out of the drop forging dies, or the patterns removed from the sand in molding for casting; and in order to ac eomplish this object, I form the shoe first with outwardly converging outer walls 21, as illustrated in Fig. 8, and very nearly vertical or parallel inner walls 22, whereby the required draft, so-called, is attained. But, by varying the angularity of these two walls, I attain the important result that these walls are thicker at their aper'zes 23, than at their bases 24. This shoe is then forced through a die,'or other suitable ma. chine, not shown, which die has an opening corres onding to the shoe at the bases 24. It fol ows that when the shoe is forced through this die, the outer walls 21 will move inwardly toward each other and become approximately parallel, as illustrated in Fig. 7, and that the inner walls then diverge inwardly from the mouth of the channel or groove, whereby the recess B in the shoe becomes, as it were, undercut. This undercutting serves to retain the rubber or other linin C, Figs. 2 and 5, permanently in place. This lining may be made from rubber and vulcanized in the shoe, or the lin ing may be separately made and then forced into the recess B, wherein the barbed hosts 18, which enter the lining, serve as ...lditional means for retaining the lining C in the recess B. When it is desired to produce a shoe in which the heel members 15 are connected' or bridged by the lining C, I cut down the inner walls 21 at the heel portion thereof and form the lining C accordingly, in the well-known manner.

. Inasmuch as the portions of the outer walls of the shoe reaching from behind the heel portions to the toe calk are closer spaced than the heel portions to afford spaces for the flanges 14,,cannot be contracted in the 'ing of the shoe when once forced into the recess therein, will be positively retained in said recess until the shoe is entirely worn out, thereby overcoming the objections to other horseshoes having converging inner walls, or walls that are spaced farther apart at their apexes than at their bases, which frequently permitthe lining to become loose and rop out of the recess.

' I have heretofore stated that there are in the recess B of the shoe upstanding barbed posts 18, which serve as auxiliary means to retain the lining C in the recess '13. Other meansmay, however, be employed by persons skilled in the art to. which this invention appertains, without de arting from the scope of this invention. gne exemplifica tion of such a modified construction is illustrated in Fig. 7 in which hook-shaped, preferably metal plates 26, may be riveted or otherwise shoe. v

Having thus fully described this invention, I claim as new and desire to secure to me by Letters Patent of the United States-'- A horseshoe, same being a metallic body, said body having a channel, said channel extending from heel to heel of the shoe, the portions of said channel at the heels being wider than the remaining portion thereof, there being laterally extending flanges on secured to one of the walls of the said body along the narrower portion of said channel, the walls of said body being in spaced relation, the outer surfaces of said walls being parallel, the inner surfaces of said walls diverging inwardly from the mouth of said channel in straight lines except at the narrower portions of said channel where the inner surfaces of the outer walls are approximately vertical at right angles to the base of said channel, the outer wall i said body being slightl curved, and tl highest at the heels, as s own.

In testimony that I claim the foregoiiw; as my invention, I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. 1

GUS F. LIDEN. Witnesses:

MICHAEL J. STARK, FRTEDA T. LEBERSTEIN. 

